Bug#516574: "/etc/init.d/gdm reload" fails when gdm is not running

[Arnaud TUFFERY]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.8-0ubuntu3
Severity: normal

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if gdm is not running, the script does not behave in a very graceful
manner. Observe:

# /etc/init.d/gdm reload
 * Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration...
 * Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
# echo $?
1
#
/etc/init.d/gdm reload, the return code is 1 without printing any error


Normally, when the output is different from 0, we should have a
warning error message

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'),
(500, 'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser         3.108ubuntu1             add and remove users and groups
ii  alsa-utils      1.0.17-0ubuntu3          ALSA utilities
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.23ubuntu2            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu            2.0.0-5ubuntu3           graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session   2.24.1-0ubuntu1          The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal  2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  kbd             1.14.1-3ubuntu3          Linux console font and keytable ut
ii  gnome-terminal  2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  kbd             1.14.1-3ubuntu3          Linux console font and keytable ut
ii  libart-2.0-2    2.3.20-2                 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0     1.24.0-0ubuntu1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1        1:2.4.41-1               Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6           2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2       1.8.0-0ubuntu1.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.4-0ubuntu1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1- 0.76-1                   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1         1:1.0.2-3                X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1  2.6.0-1ubuntu4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6    2.3.7-2ubuntu1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0     1:2.6.3-0ubuntu1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0    2.18.2-0ubuntu2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2 2.20.1.1-1ubuntu3        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0     2.14.4-0ubuntu1          The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpam-modules  1.0.1-4ubuntu5.3         Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime  1.0.1-4ubuntu5.3         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-4ubuntu5.3         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.22.2-0ubuntu1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0   0.12.0-1                 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.27-1                 PNG library - runtime
ii  librsvg2-2      2.22.3-0ubuntu1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common 2.22.3-0ubuntu1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1     2.0.65-2                 SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0        7.6.q-15                 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6        2:1.1.5-2ubuntu1.1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6         1:1.0.3-3                X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcb-render-u 0.2+git36-1              utility libraries for X C Binding
ii  libxcb-render0  1.1-1.1                  X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1         1.1-1.1                  X C Binding
ii  libxdmcp6       1:1.0.2-3                X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6        2:1.0.4-1                X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6          2:1.1.3-2build1          X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1    2:1.0.3-2                X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2         2.6.32.dfsg-4ubuntu1.1   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2      2:1.2.3-1                X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1     1:0.9.4-2                X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxrandr2      2:1.2.3-1                X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1     1:0.9.4-2                X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base        3.2-14ubuntu2            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-win 1:2.24.0-0ubuntu1        A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  xbase-clients   1:7.4~5ubuntu3           miscellaneous X clients - metapack
ii  xterm [x-termin 235-1ubuntu1.1           X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  ubuntu-gdm-themes     0.30               Ubuntu GDM themes
ii  ubuntu-sounds         0.10               Ubuntu's GNOME audio theme
ii  whiptail              0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xserver-xorg          1:7.4~5ubuntu3     the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                2.24.0-0ubuntu1    Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm
  shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm